Matthew Garrett18 years of the Linux fork that refuses to load the microcode that mitigates a range of CPU vulnerabilities
Never going to stop being angry about the subset of the free software community that would rather pretend that non-free software embedded in hardware doesn't exist than allow that non-free software to be replaced with equivalently non-free software that fixes bugs
I agree that hardware shouldn't embody non-free software! I also don't think we're giving up freedom by allowing people to replace the non-free software they already depend on with different non-free software!
Bernard Quatermass@mjg59 and as a follow-up and service to the assholes that like to ship malware; If you wanna get past the filters of “open-source software or death” morons just keep shipping .rar files.